Cheri Lynn Honkala is an American anti-poverty advocate, co-founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and co-founder and National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.
36 Facts About Cheri Honkala
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Cheri Honkala has been a noted advocate for human rights in the United States and internationally.
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Cheri Honkala was featured prominently in the 1997 book Myth of the Welfare Queen by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino.
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In 2011, Honkala was the Green Party candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, running on the promise of refusing to evict families from their homes.
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Cheri Honkala was the Green Party's nominee for vice-president in the 2012 US presidential election.
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Cheri Honkala grew up watching her mother suffer from domestic violence.
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Cheri Honkala was removed from the household and spent most of her youth incarcerated in a total of nine youth detention facilities.
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When Cheri Honkala was 17, her 19-year-old brother Mark, who suffered from mental health issues, died by suicide.
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At the time of Mark's suicide, Cheri Honkala was already a mother, living out of her car and going to high school.
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In September 1995, while the tent city was still standing, Cheri Honkala staged a protest by camping out for 36 hours, with others from the tent city, on Independence Mall within sight of the Liberty Bell, to make the plight of Philadelphia's homeless visible to residents and tourists next to one of the city's most famous landmarks.
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Cheri Honkala was charged with one first-degree felony and four other felony counts.
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Police officers claimed that Cheri Honkala had struck one of them in the chest.
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However, a video taken at the time clearly shows Cheri Honkala carrying a mattress and being struck by the officer.
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Cheri Honkala finished in third place with over 10,000 votes.
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Two lower-level officials met with the group, but when no resolution was obtained, most of the protesters exited the building, leaving only the core group, including Cheri Honkala, to be subject to arrest.
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Cheri Honkala visited the PPEHRC encampment in Tampa, Florida, nicknamed "Romneyville," and strongly supported its plan to protest the 2012 Republican National Convention in that city, beginning on the convention's opening day in August.
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Cheri Honkala planned a novel political protest called a "fart-in" to be staged at the 2016 DNC "to greet the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton with the real thing".
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Just prior to the protest, Cheri Honkala hosted a "massive bean supper" for Sanders supporters in her home.
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On January 31,2017, Cheri Honkala announced she was running for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the March 21 special election to replace Leslie Acosta, who was the second state representative for the 197th legislative district to resign on federal fraud charges.
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Cheri Honkala was considered to have more name recognition than her Republican and Democratic opponents.
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Cheri Honkala ran as a write-in candidate against Republican Lucinda Little; there was no Democrat on the ballot in the heavily Democratic district.
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In March 2017, Cheri Honkala lost to Democratic write-in Emilio Vazquez.
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Cheri Honkala has been a controversial figure throughout her career as a protester and organizer.
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Cheri Honkala has never availed herself [of] that opportunity, while other groups have.
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Cheri Honkala has been criticized for her confrontational tactics in dealing with the authorities.
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Cheri Honkala wanted people to squirm and recoil when they saw poor people.
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Cheri Honkala was convinced that America sought desperately to keep its poor out of sight so as not to be reminded of the social policies she believed exacerbated poverty.
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Cheri Honkala was one of two women profiled in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino's book, The Myth of the Welfare Queen.
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Cheri Honkala tirelessly seeks publicity for her cause, battles with bureaucrats, and rallies and comforts fellow protesters.
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Cheri Honkala was the subject of Chapter 6, "Using Economic Human Rights in the Movement to End Poverty: The Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Poor People's Economic Human Right Campaign" by Mary Bricker-Jenkins, Carrie Young and Honkala, in the book Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective, edited by Elizabeth Reichert.
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Cheri Honkala was briefly profiled in Katherine Martin's book Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women who Lived Them.
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Since the mid-1990s Cheri Honkala has been extensively documented by photographer Harvey Finkle.
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Cheri Honkala wrote the introduction to Finkle's book of photographs of the urban poor, Urban Nomads: A Poor People's Movement.
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Cheri Honkala has been repeatedly and prominently featured in the work of documentary filmmakers Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates, the latter a co-director of the award-winning film When the Mountains Tremble.
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The independent film, August in the Empire State, directed by Keefe Murren and Gabriel Rhodes, profiles several persons during the 2004 Republican National Convention, including Cheri Honkala, who is depicted leading her PPEHRC march against the RNC.
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Cheri Honkala has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards:.